shatach · spread out

What it means

shatach (שָׁטַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “spread out”.

Lay out on the ground.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To lay something open over a surface: a cloth, grain, food.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• they spread them out ×2
• I have spread out ×1
• he spreads out ×1
• scattered ×1
• they will spread them out ×1

Where it appears

• Numbers×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Jeremiah×1

• Numbers 11:32

  And the people rose up all that day and all the night and all the next day, and gathered the quails; the one who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them out for themselves around the camp.

• 2 Samuel 17:19

  The woman took and spread the covering over the mouth of the well and scattered grain on it, and nothing was known.

• Job 12:23

  He makes the nations great, and makes them perish; he spreads out the nations, and leads them.

• Psalms 88:9

  My eye languishes because of affliction; I have called on you, YHWH, every day; I have spread out to you my palms.

• Jeremiah 8:2

  and they will spread them out before the sun and the moon and all the army of the heavens, which they have loved and which they have served and after which they have walked and which they have sought and to which they have bowed down. They will not be gathered or buried; as dung on the face of the ground they will be.

And 1 more times.